John Huston (1906 - 1987) was an American film director, screenwriter and actor.

John Huston, gnarled grand old man of the American cinema, sits in a white golf cart from which he rarely stirs, his eyes focused keenly on the tiny video screen which monitors the images recorded by the camera. At 77 he was a shadow of a figure once so imposing: his legs are elongated and thinned out like a stork's, his chest is hollow, his belly droops. But the eyes still have wit and intelligence, and age has enforced a calm sobriety.

The fate of them all, however, hangs on Huston. Will Volcano the film mark a return to the greatness of yore? The third member of the production triumvirate, Moritz Borman says: “We're not making ET here. We're all waiting for something great. That's why there's such an air of concentration and excitement. We know this could be another Sierra Madre another AfricanQueen.”